African American Religious Thought: An Anthology

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Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude
Westminster John Knox Press, 1. jaan 2003 - 1054 pages

Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.

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Contents

Of the Faith of the Fathers
3
Origins of the Church
14
The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
29
The Negro Church and Assimilation
62
Alienation
95
The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Religion
156
Assessment and New Departures for a Study
221
Death of the Gods
239
Charles Manuel Sweet Daddy Grace
605
The Black Roots of Pentecostalism
616
Womens Traditions
629
From The Luminous Darkness
679
Martin Luther King Jr and the AfricanAmerican
696
The Religion of Black Power
715
Integrationism and Nationalism
746
A Sense of Urgency
765

The Christian Tradition
285
Exodus
309
Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public
338
3
339
29
346
49
352
77
360
Theorizing AfricanAmerican
366
156
392
The Making of a Church with the Soul of a Nation
414
Migration Urbanization
475
Religious Diversification during the
495
Black Muslims
534
Religious Ethos of the UNIA
550
Marcus Garvey Father Divine and the Gender Politics
572
A Theological Interpretation
775
Slave Theology in the Invisible Institution
790
Black Theology and the Black Woman
831
The Unacknowledged Threshold
849
Black Theology and Marxist Thought
874
Ontological Blackness in Theology
893
Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics
921
Vodou
942
Black Religion
978
Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church
996
Race Religion
1019
The Prophetic Tradition in AfroAmerica
1037
Permissions Acknowledgments
1051
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Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.

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